Antonyms for salutary
ˈsæl yəˌtɛr isalu·ta·ry

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1. salutary

   Healthy is most correctly used to signify possessing or enjoying health or its results; as, a healthy person; a healthy condition. Healthful signifies promotive of health, tending or adapted to confer, preserve, or promote health; as, a healthful climate. Wholesome food in a healthful climate makes a healthy man. With healthful are ranged the words hygienic, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, and wholesome, while the other words are associated with healthy. Salubrious is always used in the physical sense, and is chiefly applied to air or climate. Salutary is now chiefly used in the moral sense; as, a salutary lesson.

   Antonyms:
   delicate, diseased, emaciated, exhausted, failing, fainting, fragile, frail, ill, sick, unhealthy, unsound, wasted, weak, worn, worn down, worn out

   Synonyms:
   hale, healthful, healthy, hearty, hygienic, salubrious, sanitary, sound, strong, vigorous, well, wholesome

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. good, salutaryadjective

   tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health

   "beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air"

   Antonyms:
   unhealthful

   Synonyms:
   upright, dependable, serious, right, full, undecomposed, ripe, estimable, honorable, expert, beneficial, proficient, secure, in effect(p), effective, skillful, well(p), skilful, just, unspoiled, in force(p), good, respectable, honest, practiced, adept, sound, near, unspoilt, dear, safe

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. salutary

   Synonyms:
   Healthful, health-promoting, salubrious
   

How to use salutary in a sentence?

1. Bharavi:

   As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

2. W. Somerset Maugham:

   It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

3. Craig Pirrong:

   The glut increases liquidity. Liquidity enhances optionality. Optionality creates value. Don't stymie this salutary development. Go with it. It will pay off in both the short term and the long term.

4. Khalifa Sall:

   It's a salutary decision since he was arbitrarily imprisoned, but the fight is not over. We want an amnesty.

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